Which GPU do you think have aged the worst in the last 3 years?

[njdevilsfan87]

680 and 780, and I guess Titan (for gaming) as well. But with that said, I don't think any GPUs aged that poorly. Graphics haven't advanced too much over the past 3 years, and outside of running higher resolutions or 144Hz, there hasn't been much that has pushed GPUs forward.

I'm going to end up with ~3 years+ of life out of not my Titans by the time Pascal generation GPUs arrive. Not bad for some poorly aging cards?

 

[tweakboy]

Your 4GB ram is holding the system back. You need at least 16GB RAM for future and current games.. You wont get hitches and hickups.. etc..

 

[Sunaiac]

Any nVidia card.
They're built to be 5% faster in benchmarks using month old games even if 6 month later they're 10% behind.
The worst of them all, the one that started that whole joke of 500$ mid range, being the 680, the one that showed ppl don't buy graphic cards but buy nVidia, however a rip off that is.

 

[Goatsecks]

680 and 780, and I guess Titan (for gaming) as well. But with that said, I don't think any GPUs aged that poorly. Graphics haven't advanced too much over the past 3 years, and outside of running higher resolutions or 144Hz, there hasn't been much that has pushed GPUs forward.

I'm going to end up with ~3 years+ of life out of not my Titans by the time Pascal generation GPUs arrive. Not bad for some poorly aging cards?

Yea my 670 SLI are going to be almost 4 years old by the time pascal comes out. I thought they were still going strong, having not had any problems whatsoever, boy was I wrong! After reading this thread I now realise they are junk and am using them as doorstops. I have replaced them with a pair of potatoes that I mashed into the PCI slots.

 

[mysticjbyrd]

So why isn't the portion in which the GPU is slower than the competition (The beginning) being factored into this equation?

What if your GPU is slower than the competition for 3 years, then in the third year, it's faster. Is that really a good value? What if it's 4 years?

Time spent being faster is a huge part of the equation.... Time being available counts as well. If I can buy a GPU, it's better than a GPU that is in the future that I can't buy, as that's performance I can use now. Time matters to play as time is money/value.

Because that portion is far less relevant.

Does it really matter if you are getting 80 or 90 fps? Not really. You won't even notice. How about a year later, when you are getting 55 instead of 45? Then yes, you will notice the difference in performance.